Batten-cleat.



A. D. SMITH & L. D. LOVEKIN.

BATTEN CLEAT. APPLICATION man use. 7. 1912.

1 ,288, 7 l Patented Dec. 24, 1918.

UNITED STATE PATENT @FFTQE.

ARTHUR D. SMITH AND LUTHER D. LOVEKIN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BATTEN-CLEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24:, 1918.

Application filed December 7, 1917. Serial N0. 205,934.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, ARTHUR D. SMITH and LUTHER D. LovEKIN, citizens of the United States of America, residing in the city of Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Batten-Cleats, of which the following is a true and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof.

Our invention relates to the construction of a cargo batten cleat device, and has for its object to provide a cleat'holder which can be readily secured t the ships ribs, and a cleat which can be readily connected or disconnected from its holder, all parts of the device being simple, strong and well adapted for their purposes.

The nature of our invention will be best understood as described in connection with the drawings, in which:

Figure l is a sectional elevation through the side of a ship showing our cleat devices attached to the ribs and the battens in place.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the ships side.

Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation through a ships rib, the cleat and cleat holder and the batten, taken on the line 33 of Fig. 4:.

Fig. at is a plane view shown partly in section on the line a e of Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the cleat and cleat holder in place.

A is the side of the ship, B B, etc., the ships ribs formed as usual of channel beams with the inner angles B extending into the ships hold. 13 Figs. 3 and 4C, are circular holes punched or bored in the angles 13. C

is the cleat holder formed of a flat plate 5 having guideways C C formed at its sides, preferably by bending its edges over as shown, and a tubular extension C extending from its center on the opposite side from the guideways, which is adapted to enter a hole B in the angle B and be secured therein by expanding its end as shown at C D is the cleat formed of a fiat base D, the edges of which are shaped to slide into the guideways l, and which preferably should have a tongue I) adapted to extend below the edge of the cleat holder C, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5. From the base plate D the cleat extends out horizontally as shown at D and thence upwardly as shown at D*, affording a resting place for a batten board E.

The device, as shown, is easily attached to the ships ribs, and the cleat proper easily attached and detached from its holder. The lug D can be bent to hold the cleat in its holder and also affords a convenient cerice for a hammer blow to detach the cleat from its holder.

Having now described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A cargo batten cleat device comprising a cleat holder C, having guideways C C formed at its sides, and a tubular extension C in combination with a cleat D, having a portion D adapted to slide between the guideways C C.

ARTHUR- D. SMITH. LUTHER D. LOVEKIN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington. D. C. 

